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LESSONS

There are six downloadable lesson plans below that are intended to help prepare your students for an Electronic Field Trip to Bryce Canyon National Park. They are designed to be adaptable for grade levels between 4th and 8th and are applicable to national and state standards.

The first five lesson plans are designed to be usable on their own or as companions to the games featured on this site. The sixth lesson plan is featured on the broadcast and can be done by your students simultaneously with youth hosts on the show.

Explain what branch of geology studies fossils (paleontology) and what a paleontologist does.

Introduce students to fossils and how they are formed.

Emphasize that fossils are predominately found in sedimentary rocks because of the processes associated in their formation. Students will discover that the rocks found within Bryce Canyon National Park contain a variety of fossils.